House panel co-chair Liz Cheney said ‘inebriated’ Rudy Giuliani told former President Donald Trump to falsely claim victory on election night. (Source: CNN)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien and other top aides testified Monday at the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack that they believed the 2020 presidential race was too close to call on Election Night, but Trump nevertheless declared himself the winner.
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Stepien abruptly backed out of appearing live Monday at the hearing, because his wife went into labor. But the panel marched ahead after a morning scramble, showing previously recorded testimony from the ex-campaign manager and others close to the president, including Ivanka Trump.
“My belief, my recommendation was to say that votes were still being counted, it’s too early to tell, too early to call the race.” Stepien said in the recorded testimony.
Asked if anyone disagreed with him, Stepien replied that Trump “thought I was wrong. He told me so.”
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot opened its hearing Monday counting Stepien as a key witness. The panel is delving deeper into what it calls the “big lie,” the defeated Republican president’s false claims of voter fraud that fueled his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and provoked a mob of his supporters to lay siege to the U.S. Capitol.
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